Companies could soon have a new way to find out your shopping habits — by asking your digital clone. Joon Sung Park, Co-Founder & CEO of Simile, an AI startup, told show host Molly O’Shea on the Sourcery podcast released on Monday that the company is building simulations of people that businesses can quiz about
West Virginia’s attorney general, John McCuskey, primarily alleges that OpenAI has misled consumers and created a public nuisance that endangers children. As a remedy, the state wants age checks, parental controls, default session and nighttime limits for children, mandatory crisis-escalation protocols, and an independent monitor. It also asks that OpenAI fund a court-supervised plan supporting
David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance has cleared the last major hurdle to closing its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount has settled the lawsuit brought by 12 states, California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on Monday. A key part of the settlement: Bonta said Paramount agreed to release 30 movies in theaters each of
Wuyou Sui, a researcher at Western University in London, Canada, explains some of the ethical considerations of using digital wearable technology in research.Credit: Anna Sui Consumer wearables, such as smart watches or rings, can help people to track their daily steps, heart rate and sleep patterns. Given the devices’ popularity and ease of use, researchers
The first rate hike in three years is in the books. The Fed is officially taking direct steps to slow inflation. Meanwhile, the equity market’s worst-performing sector this year has already been pricing in a slowdown. Anyone caught off-guard by the recent consensus around a rate hike clearly hasn’t been paying attention to consumer discretionary
When the US consumer is weakening, Walmart is usually one of the last dominoes to fall. When economic conditions get tough, low-income shoppers rely on it even more. It’s also become a destination for higher-income consumers looking to cut costs. That’s what made Walmart’s first comparable-sales loss in six years particularly hard to swallow on
